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Commonwealth Games: Wrap-up and farewell

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All times stated are BritishGoodbye!

be available through competitions run by selected newspapers and radio stations.Team Scotland won a record

Our fantastic athletes have pulled off a record medal haul – smashing previous totals, national records

Rudisha, Nijel Amos and Usain Bolt took part, compared to Melbourne and New Delhi which took place at times

I've loved every moment, there have been so many challenges and amazing times along the way, but the


Commonwealth Games: The Closing Ceremony

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ALL THE NEWS, ACTION AND REACTION LIVE FROM GLASGOW 2014 AS IT HAPPENS!

All times stated are British22:55 But, before we do, what better way to end our Closing Ceremony live

We invite you all to come on down."

Your record medal haul has done your country proud."21:25 Prince Imran, President of the Commonwealth

unpleasant for the road racers and the Hockey players  looked  cold and uncomfortable as they received their medals


A tribute to the Olympic Movement's fallen

  • The Big Read

By Philip BarkerThe city of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sweet and bitter memories for the Olympic Movement. In 1984, the XIV Winter Games proved a fortnight of tremendous charm and wonderful sport. Tragically, civil war soon ravaged the city and at the 1994 Lillehammer Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch was forced to make a plea for peace at the Opening Ceremony.Happily, tranquillity has now returned to the region but the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, had unleashed World War One, the most terrible conflict the world had...

To this day Berlin 1916 is listed in the record books as the Games of the Sixth Olympiad.

identified by Jimmy Curran and when he returned home, he became one of the finest Army athletes of all

A member of the Argonaut Rowing Club he won two bronze medals.

He won the German championship three times in the build up to Stockholm and it took an Olympic record

Joseph Dines was a schoolmaster who played in all three matches.


Commonwealth Games: Day 11 of competition

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All times stated are BritishBREAKING NEWS: Rajeev Mehta, general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association

And at the bottom there of all the country's who have won gold medals is Kiribati, the Pacific Island

in the sport of lawn bowls include being the only person to win the World Indoor Singles title five times

and holding a record 19 world titles.He said: "Glasgow 2014 has been one of my career highlights without

de Mission, said: "Alex is one of the most popular and respected sportsmen of his generation and his record


Commonwealth Games: Day 10 of competition

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All times stated are BritishBREAKING NEWS: Botswana's Amantle Montsho handed provisional suspension after

"England's record-breaking night has continued.

silver medals than they did at those Games.

Good times.

15:33 That's a world record!!


Commonwealth Games: Day nine of competition

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All times stated are BritishBREAKING: Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha has been stripped of her under

South Africa finish second, while it's a national record for Antigua and Barbuda in third.21:53 We haven't

And it's good news for Trinidad and Tobago as Keshorn Walcott throws 85.28 for a national record in the

attack with 200m to and holds on to win the 3,000m steeplechase in a Kenyan clean sweep.It's a Games record

If you are a football fan you might have to read this a few times - England have won a penalty shootout


Revenge on Rudisha as Amos takes Commonwealth Games gold with stunning finish

  • Athletics

tonight at a wet Hampden Park did not disappoint, as Nijel Amos of Botswana gained revenge on world record

I think it's all about the preparation."

I will only be the man when I have broken the world record five times."

I'd like next year to come back together [with Rudisha] to break the world record."

add to her win in the 100m.The 25-year-old, who has Olympic and World Championship bronze and silver medals

to power to the line and take gold in a time of 48:50.The Caribbean contingent did pick up the minor medals


Commonwealth Games: Day eight of competition

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All times stated are BritishGood night!

I will only be the man when I have broken the world record five times.

I think it's all about the preparation.

But all finished now in the wrestling.

Nauru's gold medals...)


Mike Rowbottom: Glasgow's Games - Bolt's verdict may be debatable, but the glory is unmistakable

  • Inside the Blogs

Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave, who took three rowing medals at the 1986 Edinburgh Games, the last

record.Grenada's 21-year-old Olympic 400m champion Kirani James heads for another title at Hampden Park in a Games record

This year has also had its vexations as his British record of 8.51m, set at Chula Vista in the United

But now I've managed to win another title and that's what it's all about for me."

These are hugely important for all types of athletes at all levels and long may it continue."


Commonwealth Games: Day seven of competition

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All times stated are BritishGood night!23:28 So far, 172 of the 261 medal events have been decided.

table and now have a total of 106 medals.

The four countries in the semi-final have shared all the medals since netball was introduced to the Commonwealth

Exciting times at the athletics!

on 34 gold medals apiece.


Commonwealth Games: Day six of competition

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ALL THE NEWS, ACTION AND REACTION LIVE FROM GLASGOW 2014 AS IT HAPPENS!

All times stated are BritishBREAKING NEWS: Nigeria's 16-year-old gold medal winning weightlifter Chika

:28 Australia still hold a lead of the medals table, just, with one gold and eight medals more than England

She breaks England's Rebecca Adlington's Games record of 4:05:68 in the process as she touches home in

So, I had to work hard to prevent poor performance and I worked for the gold and for the record."


Nick Butler: An excellent first week in Glasgow

  • Inside the Blogs

more harmonious feel than at a global gathering.And then there is the sport.Writing in the New York Times

And then there was a weekend of rugby sevens which saw a world record crowd of 171,000 pile into Ibrox

an end in such thrilling fashion against South Africa only added to this spectacle, while the wider medals

and England is adding further gloss.As is the fact that host nation Scotland has already secured a record

haul of 12 gold medals after less than five full days of action.And, it does not really need to be said


Commonwealth Games: Day five of competition

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All times stated are BritishGood night!

The record number of years between Commonwealth Games medals is 20, set by Northern Ireland's Percy Watson

We've all got three medals now from Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

Ouseph took a step closer to Daren Hall's all time record of 10 British men' singles titles back in February

breaking five times World Indoor Singles Champion.


Commonwealth Games: Day four of competition

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All times stated are British23:20 And finally, after the criticisms faced by Australian Channel 10 reporter

the medals!"

It's nip and tuck all the way there but, despite having four fewer medals, their greater number of silver

"- Gary Anderson tidies up the lawn bowls medals action.Scott wins all-English double trap shooting final15

So no shame in that loss at all for the Malaysians.Bowlers bowling their way towards medals"After five


Commonwealth Games: Day three of competition

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All times stated are British Goodnight!

happening away from the sporting action today as well: that mad press conference with Usain Bolt that at times

Meanwhile England's two gold medals also came via record times as Francesca Halsall won her second Commonwealth

Meanwhile England's two gold medals also came via record times as Francesca Halsall won her second Commonwealth

country to win 200 medals in all cycling disciplines at the Commonwealth Games.